Tagged - A musical interlude
I was stitched up and roped into this by Nicole at Craftapalooza. Onetwothreefour...
1. Total amount of music files on your computer?
Whittled down to top 1500 .
2. CD you last bought?
Frank Black Francis
Pixies obsession spurred this is a bit of odd completism. Disk two of remixes is interesting in a pavlova with a sea urchin glaze kind of way. Or maybe a glazed urchin with a sea pavlova.
3. What is the song you last listened to before reading this message?
Can't remember. Let's just imagine it was the Scientist's Nitro.
4. 5 songs you often listen to, or which mean a lot to you?
- Hallelujah - John Cale
Sublimating like it should. Nudges out Jerusalem - Blackfella/ White Fella - Warumpi Band
"message" song but mucho fun and leaves me happy rather than wanting to run out and tip a car over before setting it on fire. And so much better than INXS' dream on thingy,not to mention Ebony and Ivory and less said of MJ and PMcC the better. Similar fave Free Nelson Mandela by the Specials a tad redundant now, no? - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Bypasses all rational thought.
Pangadangpangdangdang[shifts weight onto balls of feet] - Bring the Noise - Public Enemy
Don't think any song has left me quite so mentally knackered after listening to it for the first time. BASS! - You Are Always On My Mind - Elvis [the 70s box-set live version]
Had mea culpa to Priscilla all over it and a glimpse of the oxen sized heart beating beneath that would eventually finish him off. Hunka Hunka Cheeseburger mockers can bite me. No heresy in the Pet Shop Boys version at all though.
5. Who are you going to pass this on to and why?
Jeanne - because I suspect she'll catch a couple of notable omissions.
Andrew - because he'll fret about it, do a fantastic job, think it's rubbish, but secretly enjoy it all.
Saint - passing on the getting to know you aspect of this to a most enigmatic of South Australians.
Non obligatory of course, I don't think it's one of these and the ship they then sailed on, The Titanic, type chainy letter thing.
posted by Anthony at Tuesday, February 01, 2005
13 Comments:
I was talked into seeing the Pixies at the Kentish Town and Country Club in London in '88. I really never saw the attraction and I still didn't after the gig and I still don't now. As for THAT Nirvana track... Am I the only person on the planet who doesn't like it. I do like the odd track by those guys, but 'Smell' always sounded so naff to me. Just an opinion like.
pieman
www.noodlepie.com
2/01/2005 10:54:00 pm
Nicole
How was it? Did they have the S1W? I think they came twice but didn't go for either being skint or a general rule of rap acts not being all that good live. Then again I liked the Beastie Boys when they came here but they were more in their we're a real band phase. Will be intersting to see the at the BDO this Saturday.
Pie
No worries, it's just that you lack my hyper-sensitive loud/soft musical receptor rods. So sensitive, they are overwhelmed by melody and rhythm, the Beatles give me a headache, reggae just confuses me. The Pixies are the chocolate coated licorice bullets to SLTS's ouzo. Anyway as punishment for having a differing opinion I will inflict one "you just have to really listen" on you.
2/02/2005 07:32:00 am
Oh Nicole
I did suspect something was up when I had this incredible urge to make crinkle cut chips and hamsteak with pineapple. Beware people, maybe it'll be a small choc milk and green jelly with cream.
2/02/2005 10:47:00 am
Ahh bugger shouldn't presume things. I'm imaging they would have rocked. PE and De la Soul, when did rap become I'm I hard bastard with a Bentley? : (
As for the BDO, line-up is a bit patchy. The Beastie Boys were the hook and the Blues Explosion got me dragging out the credit card. I've seen them on a regular basis on the past 10 years so it's kind of ritual. Their albums have waned but they have consistently rocked very hard thank you very much.
Coles Cafeteria was the quintissential Nana treat, although I our trips to the city always involved a trip to the Forum Coffee House.
2/02/2005 04:20:00 pm
Thanks, buddy boy - a musical chain letter! Trust me, you're going to be horrified at a) the average age of my favourite music and b) the sheer commerciality of it all... But with my feet in the air and my head on the ground, I'll try this trick and spin it, yeah... ;-)
Good thing you exonerate the Pet Shop Boys of all wrongdoing - their version rocks.
2/02/2005 06:42:00 pm
Hey don't mention it matey.
You'd be surprised how tolerant I am of other people's music tastes when I don't have to listen to them ; ) (actually that's crap as those on the end of my "Johnny Cash/Iggy Pop now there's an artist" comments will attest).
Ahh the Pet Shop Boys, so wrong for me yet so right.
Now where *is* my head...
2/02/2005 08:46:00 pm
Erm, I do believe it was your mind we were talking about, not your head... ;-)
2/03/2005 01:33:00 am
Jeanne
I am embarrassed on *so* many levels : )
Saint
And one swiftly taken up.
2/03/2005 08:47:00 am
Hi Anthony,
Not a bad selection of songs. I'm not too sure that I liked Frank Black's solo stuff, but I did enjoy the first couple of Pixies albums. The first EP was actually my favorite of all.
I have to agree with pieman on the Nirvana. If I had to pick a song from this CD, it would have probably been "Lithium".
2/03/2005 07:27:00 pm
Mmm the Pixies were always more than the sum of their parts and I don't actually have any of the CDs Frank Black put out. I'm a sucker for Doolittle like I am for Sonic Youth's Goo.
As for Nirvana, I'm afraid you and Pieman are unswervable melodists.
2/03/2005 08:22:00 pm
Yeah LC's got a bit of the Prince about him in terms of other people singing his songs (and having said that the only Prince cover song I can think of is by Age of Chance so I might have to review that opinion). The whole "I'm Your Fan" tribute album is pretty top notch and managed to avoid the inevitable ska version (nothing wrong with them minds). As for Jerusalem, I can't believe Billy Bragg butchered it, but then again maybe it's like ummmm John Howard performing as Sir Donald Bradman.
2/04/2005 02:00:00 pm
"the 70s box-set"
... ahhhhh
CS
2/08/2005 08:50:00 pm
I'm looking across the room now looking at it and smiling.
2/08/2005 09:55:00 pm
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